My Riffs

Our snap judgments assume so much. We assume we know what somebody was thinking. We assume we know what somebody was intending to  What if we don’t really know and we need to be slow to assume and judge? We don’t need snap decisions on every person, action and event. Slow down, wait. Try to not assume what’s not known. 

Listen twice, think thrice, speak once. 

Find joy in the little things and you'll find lots of joy.

It’s hard to gain without some type of pain. Sacrifice is a pain but there’s something to gain from it.  The pain of lifting heavy things leads to gains in strength. The pain’s of life can do the same thing. Don’t waste the pain. Gain from and through the pain. 

I'm pursuing something. You're pursuing something.  Even the most unmotivated individual is pursuing something. Their chief pursuit may be to avoid doing anything. But it's still a pursuit. Where we spend out time usually shows what is important and what we're truly pursuing. If you aren't spending time on it, you're not pursuing it. Your time is the great revealer.

Avoidance usually expands. The more we avoid the thing we dislike or don’t want to do, it seems to grow even more.  The only way to make it shrink is to address it.